IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Liam Clarke
Saturday, 5 May 2012
An auxiliary bishop is to be appointed by the Vatican to work beside Cardinal Sean Brady as part of a carefully choreographed exit strategy for the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The coadjutor bishop would be a senior Church figure who would act as the cardinal’s understudy in his role as Archbishop of Armagh, before eventually inheriting the role after a respectable amount of time had elapsed.
The furore over Cardinal Brady’s handling of child sex abuse allegations when he was a priest in the 1970s, which re-ignited this week, has taken a heavy toll on the Church leader.
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